Bill Cooper is the head pharmacist at Peninsula Regional Medical Center's new in-house pharmacy, which serves employees, their dependents and newly discharged patients.

Written by

Jeremy Cox
| The (Salisbury, Md.) Daily Times

Peninsula Regional Medical Center has opened a pharmacy in the high-traffic area on its campus between the same-day surgery center and the emergency room.

Administrators want it to be seen and used by newly discharged patients and the hospital's 3,000 employees and their dependents.

The pharmacy is the hospital's reaction to a pair of simultaneous challenges: a new state mandate to steer patients away from hospitals and its own workers' dissatisfaction with a mail-order prescription service. ...